2 DIY Boys Birthday Cakes + New 30-Day Challenge

We celebrated the boys’ birthdays (one turned 9 in June, the other turns 10 in July) and remember how I talked about spending 3 hours making them? They turned out amazing!

They each chose what they wanted and I helped them make it come to life. They did a really great job!

Here’s B’s:

This is the infamous “Chocolate Lasagna” I’ve seen floating around Pinterest. The original source is here.

We cut the pieces in 3 x 3″ squares and that was way too big. This stuff is rich! I’m sure we could’ve gotten away with handing out 1 x 1″ pieces just fine. It was really delicious though!

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Next up, here’s G’s:

This is a two-layer 8″ round vanilla cake with crushed Oreos sprinkled on top. He also requested that the bottom of the cake have an Oreo crust so we did that too and it actually worked out pretty well!

Here’s the inside:

As far as the cake recipe goes, I basically followed the box with just a couple of changes:

The frosting was amazing. I always make buttercream frosting so I followed the recipe I always use (link below) and then I also added in one 8-ounce package of cream cheese.

Best frosting ever.

I have the original recipe pinned here if you use Pinterest or the original source is here.

We finished the day with sparklers. I love this picture. <3

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In other news, I said before that I am now a Sweat Pink Ambassador and how I was excited to get my pink laces.

Well guess what? I got ‘em! NINE PAIRS.

Lookit my Nikes’ makeover:

Much better!

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And finally,

I pulled the trigger. A new workout is headed my way!

Focus T25 is an Insanity-ish style workout that lasts only 25 minutes. I haven’t attempted Insanity yet, though I hope to at some point, but I’m thrilled these workouts are basically cut in HALF compared to Insanity workouts.

I will do a full review and breakdown once I receive my stuff but here are the basics:

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Mindi is the founder and author of Build Your Dream Body. She's happily married in a blended family of six. After struggling with clinical depression in her teens and early 20's, she found freedom in fitness and hopes to motivate and inspire other women to do the same. This blog is her journey.

Thank you! :) I just traced a big number, cut it out and placed it on the cake and then the boys sprinkled all around it. Another idea from Pinterest!

It appears to be a lot of body-weight movements. I’ve also seen dumbbells used in some of the workouts so we’ll see! I haven’t ever done any of Shaun T’s workouts so I’m a little nervous. 25 minutes shouldn’t be too bad…!

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